The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market closed with a number of stocks having large price changes and the market indices pulling back from the record close on Friday.
At the end of trading, the All Jamaica Composite Index dived 3,531.21 points to 414,919.49 and the JSE Index declined by 3,217.33 points to close at 378,038.62.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
A total of 32 securities traded including 2 in the US dollar market, compared to 30 trading on Friday with the prices of 10 securities rising, 17 declining and 5 holding firm.
Sagicor Group traded at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $46.50, Mayberry Equities traded at an intraday high of $20 and ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $12.51 and Carreras traded at a 52 weeks’ intraday low of $8.80.
Trading ended with 3,865,461 units valued at $98,334,906 changing hands, compared with 17,261,656 units valued at $203,142,878 on Friday.
Trading closed with Carreras with 896,721 units and 23.2 percent of the day’s volume, dominating trading, followed by Jamaica Stock Exchange with 454,951 units and 11.77 percent of volume traded and Grace Kennedy trading 449,788 units or 11.64 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 128,849 units valued $3,277,830, in contrast to 595,230 units valued $7,004,927 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 382,244 shares, valued $6,804,156 and previously, 406,926 shares, valued $7,181,976. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Berger Paints shed 50 cents and closed at $22, trading 4,395 shares, Grace Kennedy rose 49 cents and ended trading 449,788 shares at $59.50, Jamaica Broilers lost 41 cents in trading 21,347 stock units, to close at $32.01, Jamaica Producers dropped $3 to close of $30 with 338,585 units changing hands, Kingston Wharves gained 50 cents in exchanging 6,921 stock units, to close at $82.50, Mayberry Investments lost 49 cents to close at $11.01 after trading 32,524 shares, NCB Financial Group lost 99 cents and ended at $129, trading 166,004 shares, PanJam Investment closed $1.50 lower at $64, with 77,368 stock units trading, Portland JSX traded 38,580 shares but fell 40 cents to close at $8.10, Pulse Investments gained 40 cents to $2.80 trading 261,000 shares, Sagicor Group jumped $4.02 to $46.50, trading 10,276 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund lost 40 cents to close at $14.50, trading 154,592 shares, Scotia Group rose $1 trading 4,055 units to close 
at $59, Seprod after dropping sharply by $12.50 on Friday, suffered another huge dive for the second day by $10.50 and finished trading at $39, with 2,000 shares changing hands after the announcement of the sale of 92 million shares at $23.99 each. Sterling Investments lost 50 cents to close at $22.50 while trading 27,270 shares, Supreme Ventures jumped $2.48 to end at $19.99, with 56,045 shares changing hands and Wisynco Group lost 30 cents to end at $10, trading 243,477 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 403,750 units valued at US$44,588 changing hands as Proven Investments ended trading just 1,750 to close at 21 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments US dollar ordinary share traded 402,000 units and rose 0.05 cent to end at 11 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index lost 0.90 points to 167.78.
Barita could spike higher this week
Barita last traded on the JSE as high as $20 on Friday.
The main market of the stock exchange ended the week at another record close with a number of individual stocks hitting new highs but this coming week could well be more challenging, investors have to bear in mind that the supplies for several stocks are very limited and could result in big price movements as happened last week.
Technical chart shows NCB Financial heading to $155 but it traded at new high of $134 during the past week which is not very far from the target of potential resistance. Whether it goes higher during the coming days is anyone’s guess but it is worth watching. Caribbean Cream moved up to $7.90 from $6.16 at the end of the previous week. The company posted better profit results in the August quarter but with less gains than in the first, as administrative cost rose to negate some of the top line growth. Those results may be unlikely to move the stock forward in the short term.
The Junior Market continues to inch forward as it appears that investors are waiting on results. They got Caribbean Cream and Paramount Trading at the end of week, but no major upward price movement is expected.
Caribbean Cream sales & profit slowed in Q2.
The indicators point to continued increased interest in the main market stocks with a number of them are high on the list to watch for this week with less indications that Junior Market stocks will move upwards in droves anytime soon. Stocks of interest this week are Grace Kennedy, Barita Investments with limited supply and technical indicators pointing to a price of $22.50 initially before going on to $27.50. Berger Paints, Jamaica Producers has very little stock offered for sale and that could result in a sharp spike in price at any time, Mayberry Jamaican Equities (MJE), Mayberry Investments that will benefit from increased profit of MJE, NCB Financial, Wisynco Group that has gone back above the $10 price level, CAC2000 that is very scarce, Main Event and Stationery and Office Supplies that seem to have exhausted selling at $09.50 with $10 being the possible next level. A number of these have limited supplies for sale.
With the average PE of the market now at a comfortable 16 times 2018 earnings, stocks valued less than the market average could see increased interest as investors look for bargains.
Grace Kennedy seems ready to break out of the $60 range as there is no big supply on offer now and during the past
Caribbean Cement price is stuck in the mud for now.
week, it traded as high as $75. Caribbean Cement keeps trading between $46 and $50, but there appears no real desire to move the price forward, this one could be negatively affected by foreign exchange losses in the September quarter. Kingston Wharves has always had limited supply, so it could move higher going forward, even the valuation is rich. Supply of JMMB Group has dried up and that could create the environment for the price to continue to move higher, it is also one of the lower valued stock in the main market. Investors need to bear in mind that the price is currently at a resistance level at $37, so it may move sideways with an upward bias for a while, unless strong buying pushes over this level.
An overall view of stocks indicates that the main market continues to be steered higher by an upward sloping support line as well the 45 and 125 day moving averages, lending support just below. The Junior Market is being guided by an upward rising long-term support line and a golden cross. The golden cross is a very strong bullish long-term signal, but market needs fuel of rising profits.
Witco jumps $1 in TTSE trading – Monday
3 for 1 stock split coming for Witco
West Indian Tobacco climbed $1 in exchanging just 32 shares, to end at $90 in trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Monday as investors await the result of the 3 for 1 stock split vote on October 30.
The market enjoyed heightened levels of participating securities trading on Monday with 20 securities changing hands including two with just 3 units each, against 19 trading on Friday.
Trading closed with the price of 5 rising, 4 declining and 11 remaining unchanged, leading to the Composite Index rising 0.32 points to 1,229.70, the All T&T Index adding 0.75 points to 1,703.15, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.02 points to close at 101.67.
The market ended trading of 674,102 shares at a value of $11,376,325 compared to 184,966 shares at a value of $3,912,783 changing hands on Friday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 7 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| First Caribbean International Bank gained 1 cent and concluded trading 1,000 units at $8.50, Guardian Holdings rose 14 cents to $16.89, with 59,854 units trading, National Enterprises finished trading after an increase by 1 cent and settled at $8.97, with 60,000 stock units changing hands and Scotiabank ended trading with an increase of 4 cents at $64.89, with 159 units changing hands.
Stocks closing with losses| First Citizens shares fell 5 cents and ended at $32.65, after exchanging 16,783 shares, Sagicor Financial share fell 1 cent and settled at $7.69, trading 453 stock units, Trinidad & Tobago NGL shed 3 cents and ended at $29.28, after exchanging 13,184 shares and Trinidad Cement lost 1 cent and completed trading at $2.74, after exchanging just 3 shares.
Stocks trading with no price change| Ansa Mcal concluded trading of 140,003 units at $56.99, Ansa Merchant ended at $38.25, after exchanging a mere 3 shares, Calypso Macro Index Fund traded 871 shares to close at $15.81, Clico Investments settled at $19.50, with 18,426 stock units changing hands, JMMB Group completed trading at $1.70, after exchanging 4,580 shares, Massy Holdings completed trading at $47, after exchanging 2,355 shares, National Flour concluded trading at $1.65, with 7,687 units, One Caribbean Media completed trading at $12, after exchanging 4,105 shares, Prestige Holdings concluded market activity at $7.52, with 2,958 units, Republic Financial Holdings completed trading at $106.01, after exchanging 3,058 shares and Unilever Caribbean settled at $25.50, with 244 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Record high for JSE – Friday
The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market captured another record high, in trading on Friday, with the All Jamaica Composite Index hitting 419,855.25 with just 40 minutes before midday.
The market pulled back by the close to end at a record close to be up by 32 percent for the year. At the end of trading, the All Jamaica Composite Index advanced by 1,454.53 points to record closing high of 418,450.70 and the JSE Index gained 1,325.24 points to record close of 381,255.95.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 9 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers.
A total of 30 securities traded including 1 in the US dollar market, compared to 32 trading on Thursday with the prices of 11 securities rising, 16 declining and 3 holding firm.
Barita Investments ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $20, Mayberry Investments closed at an all-time high of $11.50, and Jamaica Producers ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $33 and Sagicor Group traded at a 52 weeks’ intraday high of $43.01.
Trading ended with 17,261,656 units valued at $203,142,878 changing hands, compared with 5,137,117 units valued at $72,997,097 on Thursday.
Trading closed with Wisynco Group with 8,160,974 units and 47.3 percent of the day’s volume, dominating trading, followed by JMMB Group 7.5% preference share with 6 million units and 34.75 percent of volume traded and Scotia Group trading 960,106 units or 5.6 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 595,230 units valued at $7,004,927, in contrast to 197,581 shares valued at $2,807,581 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 406,926 shares, valued $7,181,976 and previously, 387,353 shares, valued $7,202,432. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments gained 50 cents and closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $20, trading with 10,951 shares, Grace Kennedy lost $1.48 and ended trading at $59.50, exchanging 93,322 shares. Jamaica Broilers jumped $3.87 in trading 44,646 stock units to close at $32.42, Jamaica Producers finished $3 higher to a record close of $33 with 9,964 units changing hands, JMMB Group gained $1.01 and ended at $35.01, trading 
21,829 shares, Kingston Wharves fell 50 cents in exchanging 10,448 stock units, to close at $82, PanJam Investment closed 70 cents higher to $65.50, with 40,350 stock units trading, Sagicor Real Estate Fund rose 40 cents to $14.90, trading 11,223 shares, Salada Foods fell $1 to $25.50 in trading 550 shares, Scotia Group lost $1.10 trading 960,106 units to close at $58, Seprod dropped sharply by $12.50 and finished trading at $49.50, with 2,000 shares changing hands, Supreme Ventures dived $3.39 to end at $17.51, with 69,706 shares changing hands and Wisynco Group advanced 45 cents to end at $10.30, trading 8,160,974 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 4,897 units valued at US$1,046, changing hands as Proven Investments was the sole stock trading and fell 1 cent to close at 21 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index lost 2.53 points to 168.68.
Republic jumped $2.25 in TTSE trading – Friday
Republic Bank traded at a 52 weeks’ high.
Republic Financial Holdings recorded the biggest price movement in trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday, in jumping $2.25 in exchanging 9,667 shares, to end at a 52 weeks’ high of $106.01.
For the second trading day, the market enjoyed heightened levels of participating securities trading on Friday with 19 securities changing hands against 18 trading on Thursday.
Trading closed with the price of 6 rising, 5 declining and 8 remaining unchanged, leading to the Composite Index rising 8.20 points on Friday to 1,229.38, the All T&T Index adding 7.51 points to 1,702.40, while the Cross Listed Index rose 1.22 points to close at 101.69.
The market ended trading of 184,966 shares at a value of $3,912,783, compared to 674,102 shares at a value of $4,897,703 changing hands on Thursday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 4 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains | First Caribbean International Bank finished trading 300 units and rose 9 cents to $8.49, Grace Kennedy closed with an increase of 29 cents to $2.99, with 30 stock units changing hands, Guardian Holdings ended trading of 562 units after gaining 3 cents to settle at $16.75, National Flour finished trading 2,979 units and rose by 5 cents to $1.65, and Trinidad & Tobago NGL concluded trading with a rise of 6 cents to $29.31, after exchanging 1,700 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| Clico Investments closed with a loss of 1 cent and at $19.50, with 41,149 stock 
units changing hands, Prestige Holdings closed with a loss of 4 cents and settled at a 52 weeks low of $7.52, trading 30,234 units, Sagicor Financial shed 6 cents and completed trading at $7.70, with 63,499 stock units changing hands, Scotiabank lost 5 cents and settled at $64.85, with 191 units trading and Unilever Caribbean ended trading 75 cents lower to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $25.50, with 910 stock units changing hands.
Stocks trading with no price change| Angostura Holdings completed trading at $15.76, with 11,122 stock units changing hands, Calypso Macro Index Fund traded 4,974 shares to close at $15.81, First Citizens closed at $32.70, after exchanging 1,870 shares, JMMB Group ended at $1.70, after trading 3,136 shares, Massy Holdings ended at $47, in exchanging 406 shares, National Enterprises completed trading at $8.96, with 150 stock units changing hands, Trinidad Cement ended at $2.75, after trading 1,787 shares and West Indian Tobacco settled at $89, with 10,300 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE closed with some sharp price changes
Seprod jumped $12 to a record high of $62.
The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market climbed robustly on Thursday with reduced market activity but with rising stocks outpacing falling ones as the market close with some big price changes.
At the end of trading, All Jamaica Composite Index surged 4,547.81 points to close at a record close of 416,996.17 and the JSE Index jumped 4,143.57 points to record close of 379,930.71.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers, suggesting a fairly even match, between rising and declining stocks on Thursday.
A total of 30 securities traded including 4 in the US dollar market, compared to 32 trading on Wednesday with the prices of 13 securities rising, 7 declining and 10 holding firm.
Mayberry Investments traded at an all-time intraday high of $10.01, Sagicor Group ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $42.51, Salada Foods closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $26.50 and Seprod closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $62.
Trading ended with major contraction in trading volume in the main market compared to Wednesday’s levels, with 5,137,117 units valued at $72,997,097 compared with 16,795,459 units valued at $285,223,377 changing hands on Wednesday.
Trading closed with Jamaica Stock Exchange led with 1,418,661 units and 27.62 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Mayberry Investments with 1,140,593 units, accounting for 22.20 percent of volume traded and Wisynco Group with 511,686 units and 9.96 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 197,581 units valued at over $2,807,581, in contrast to 559,849 shares valued at $9,507,446 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 387,353 shares, valued $7,202,432 and previously, 406,855 shares, valued $7,710,282. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Jamaica Broilers dived $3.86 in trading 16,347 stock units to close at $28.55, JMMB Group dropped $3 and ended at $34, with 241,121 shares trading, Kingston Wharves lost 50 cents in exchanging 4,609 stock units, to close at $82.50, NCB Financial Group rose $1.99 and settled at $129.99, with 25,724 units changing hands, Salada Foods rose 50 cents to a record close of $26.50 in trading 18,000 shares, Sagicor Group climbed $1.51 to a 52 weeks’ high of $42.51, after trading 222,370 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund rose 30 cents to end at $14.50,
trading 79,469 shares, Scotia Group lost 90 cents trading 38,937 units to close at $59.10, Seprod jumped $12 and finished trading at record $62, with 3,637 shares changing hands, Supreme Ventures jumped $5.40 to end at $20.90, with 218,727 shares changing hands and Wisynco Group lost 15 cents to end at $9.85, trading 511,686 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 44,592 units valued at US$26,775, changing hands, JMMB Group ended gained 1 cent to close at $1.08 trading 20,000 stock units, Margaritaville settled at 25 US cents with 583 shares trading,Proven Investments traded 21,809 shares to close at 22 US cents and Sygnus Credit traded 2,200 units and lost 1 cents to end at 10.50 cents. The JSE USD Equities Index rose 0.49 points to 171.21.
Jump in number of TTSE stocks trading – Thursday
Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange Head Quarters
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange had an increase in the number of listings trading on Thursday with 18 securities changing hands against 14 trading on Wednesday.
Trading closed with the price of 5 rising, 4 declining and 9 remaining unchanged, leading to the Composite Index rising 0.03 points to 1,221.18, the All T&T Index adding 0.60 points to 1,694.89, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.08 points to close at 100.47.
The market ended trading of 674,102 shares at a value of $4,897,703, compared to 680,826 shares at a value of $23,759,560 changing hands on Wednesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 7 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains | Ansa Merchant finished trading with a rise of 23 cents, ending at $38.25, after exchanging 800 shares, Clico Investments gained 1 cent and settled at $19.51, with 85,380 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial rose 1 cent and settled at a 52 weeks’ high of $7.76, with 3,957 stock units changing hands, with the stock closing with the bid at $106 to buy 3,400 units. Trinidad Cement finished 5 cents higher at $2.75, after exchanging 4,500 shares and West Indian Tobacco concluded trading of 10,000 units and gained 28 cents to close at $89.
Stocks closing with losses| Guardian Holdings lost 2 cents and concluded an exchange of 5,300 units at 
$16.72, JMMB Group ended trading 2 cents lower at $1.70, after exchanging 14,732 shares, NCB Financial Group concluded trading with a loss of 1 cent at $5.74, after exchanging 8,000 shares and One Caribbean Media traded 500 shares with a loss of 11 cents to close at $12.
Stocks trading with no price change| Angostura Holdings settled at $15.76, with 1,000 stock units changing hands,First Citizens ended at $32.70, after exchanging just 644 shares, Grace Kennedy settled at $2.70, with 505,007 stock units changing hands, Massy Holdings completed trading at $47, after exchanging 12,000 shares, National Enterprises settled at $8.96, with 200 stock units changing hands, National Flour concluded trading of 3,400 units at $1.60, Point Lisas settled at $3.62, with 15,857 stock units changing hands, Prestige Holdings concluded market activity at $7.56, with 363 units and Trinidad & Tobago NGL ended at $29.25, after exchanging 2,462 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE in sharp drop on Wednesday
The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market dropped sharply on Wednesday with increased market activity but with rising stocks outpacing falling ones by 80 percent.
At the end of trading, All Jamaica Composite Index dropped 3,927.81 points to 412,448.36 and the JSE Index declined by 3,578.68 points to close at 375,787.14.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers, suggesting a fairly even match, between rising and declining stocks on Thursday.
A total of 32 securities traded, including 3 in the US dollar market, compared to 31 trading on Tuesday with the prices of 14 securities rising, 8 declining and 10 holding firm.
Jamaica Producers traded at 52 weeks’ high during the day, of $33 and Jamaica Stock Exchange traded at an intraday high of $9.20, but both fell back by the close, while Mayberry Investments closed at an all-time high of $10. Barita Investments ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $19.50, Salada Foods closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $26 and Radio Jamaica traded at a 52 weeks’ intraday low of 80 cents.
Trading ended with major contraction in the value of trades in the main market, compared to Tuesday’s levels, with 16,795,459 units valued at $285,223,377 versus 9,264,518 units valued at $430,892,380 changing hands on Tuesday.
Trading closed with Wisynco Group leading with 10,860,918 units accounting for 64.67 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Grace Kennedy with 1,515,091 units or 9 percent of total volume traded and Supreme Ventures with 1,278,248 units and 7.6 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 559,849 units valued at $9,507,446, in contrast to 330,876 shares valued at $15,389,014 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 406,855 shares, valued $7,710,282 and previously, 386,273 shares, valued $7,433,795. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments rose 70 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ close at $19.50, trading 8,100 shares, Caribbean Cement rose 86 cents to finish at $49.95, in exchanging 34,400 shares, Grace Kennedy lost 55 cents and ended trading 1,515,091 shares at $60.95, Jamaica Broilers declined by 41 cents in trading 63,380 stock units to close at $32, JMMB Group rose $1 and ended at $37, with 395,580 shares, Kingston Wharves jumped $8 in exchanging 1,670 stock units, to close at $83, Mayberry Investments rose 80 cents to
finish at a record $10, trading 101,446 stock units, NCB Financial Group lost $2 and settled at $128, with 159,788 units, 138 Student Living fell 40 cents and closed at $4.60, with 279 stock units trading, Salada Foods jumped $5.29 to a record close of $26 in trading just 200 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund fell 80 cents to end at $14.20, trading 155,029 shares, Sterling Investments dropped $4.30 and closed at $23.30 with 29,383 shares changing hands, Supreme Ventures dived $5.40 to end at $15.50, with 1,278,248 shares changing hands and Wisynco Group rose 40 cents to $10, trading 10,860,918 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 50,462 units valued at $10,394, changing hands, Proven Investments traded 45,387 shares to close at 22 US cents and Sygnus Credit 5,075 units and rose 0.5 cents to end at 11.5 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index lost 1.02 points to 170.72.
5 TTSE stocks rise 4 fall – Wednesday
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange, closed with the Composite Index rising 0.33 points to 1,221.15, the All T&T Index adding 0.65 points to 1,694.29, while the Cross Listed Index was unchanged at 100.55.
At close, 14 securities changed hands, with the price of 5 rising, 4 declining and 5 remaining unchanged, against 14 trading on Tuesday.
The market ended trading of 680,826 shares at a value of $23,759,560, compared to 1,588,903 shares valued at $9376766, changing hands on Tuesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 4 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Angostura Holdings gained 1 cent and ended at $15.76, with 4,098 stock units changing hands, First Citizens closed with an increase of 5 cents and settled at $32.70, after exchanging 575 shares, Guardian Holdings rose 14 cents to $16.74, and completed trading with 222,021 units, Prestige Holdings finished 2 cents higher and completed trading of 1,500 units at $7.56 and West Indian Tobacco added 22 cents and completed trading, with 107,274 units at $88.72.
Stocks closing with losses| Ansa Mcal concluded trading with a loss of 1 cent and at $56.99 in trading 100,416 units, Clico Investments traded with a loss of 1 cent and ended at $19.50, with 21,689 stock units changing hands,
Scotiabank fell 4 cents and completed trading at $64.90, with 2,679 units and Trinidad Cement closed with a loss of 5 cents at $2.70, after exchanging 2,000 shares.
Stocks trading with no price change| Grace Kennedy ended at $2.70, with 100,000 stock units changing hands, Massy Holdings ended at $47, after exchanging 68,749 shares, Point Lisas ended at $3.62, with 30,010 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial ended at $7.75, with 3,921 stock units trading and Trinidad & Tobago NGL settled at $29.25, after exchanging 15,894 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Declining stocks dominate JSE
The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market ended with modest gains on Tuesday with increased market activity but with falling stocks distancing advancing ones by 25 percent.
At the end of trading, All Jamaica Composite Index gained 470.64 points to close at 416,376.17 and the JSE Index rose 428.81 points to 379,365.82.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 11 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers, suggesting mostly gains ahead for stocks on Wednesday.
A total of 31 securities traded including 3 in the US dollar market, compared to 27 trading on Monday with the prices of 12 securities rising, 15 declining and 4 holding firm.
Kingston Wharves traded at 52 weeks’ high during the day of $85 and Mayberry Equities traded at an intraday high of $13.25, but both fell back by the close, while Sterling Investments closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $27.60 and Radio Jamaica ended at a 52 weeks’ low of 85 cents.
Trading ended with major contraction in trading volume in the main market compared to Monday’s levels, with 9,264,518 units valued at $430,892,380 compared to 13,217,499 units valued at $228,334,356 changing hands on Monday.
Trading closed with Kingston Wharves led with 5,087,056 units and accounting for 54.91 percent of the day’s volume followed by Ciboney with 1,393,189 units or 15.04 percent of total volume traded and Carreras with 737,720 units and 7.96 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 330,876 units valued at over $15,389,014, in contrast to 528,700 shares valued at $9,133,374 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 386,273 shares, valued $7,433,795 and previously, 394,228 shares, valued $6,099,986. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Berger Paints rose 51 cents to end at $22.50, trading 8,578 stock units, Caribbean Cement shed 91 cents to finish at $49.09, in exchanging 23,096 shares, Grace Kennedy lost 50 cents and ended trading 19,357 shares at $61.50, Jamaica Broilers declined by $1 in trading 42,674 stock units stock units to close at $32, Jamaica Producers rose 50 cents and finished trading 17,843 units at $30, JMMB Group fell $1 and ended
at $36, with 202,220 shares, Kingston Wharves dropped $7.99 in exchanging 5,087,056 stock units to closed at $75, Mayberry Investments lost 30 cents to finish at $9.20, trading 161,000 stock units, PanJam Investment grew 69 cents to $64.70,with 4,715 stock units trading, Sagicor Real Estate Fund rose $1 to end at $15, trading 47,645 shares, Scotia Group declined $1 to close at $60, trading 167,808 units, Seprod jumped $1 trading 3,600 shares, to close at $50, Sterling Investments jumped $2.60 and closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $27.60 with a mere 300 shares changing hands, Supreme Ventures rose 40 cent to end at $20.90, with 39,955 shares changing hands and Wisynco Group rose 25 cents to $9.60, trading 452,414 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 5,608 units valued at $3,002, changing hands JMMB Group 6 percent preference share traded 2,035 units to end at US$1.07, Margaritaville traded 1,298 shares at 25 US cents after rising by 1 cent, Proven Investments lost 1 cent in trading 2,275 shares to close at 21 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index lost 3.53 points to 171.74.